10 Incredible Comic Books With Near PERFECT Endings

10. Watchmen

Government-sanctioned hero The Comedian was murdered and vigilante Rorschach believed it was a plot against “capes”. He warned his former partner Dan Dreiberg (Nite-Owl II), vastly-powered scientist Dr. Manhattan, his lover and former Silk Spectre II Laurie Juspeczyk, and Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias). Manhattan was publicly accused of giving former friends cancer and he exiled himself to Mars.

Rorschach was framed for the murder of his former foe Moloch and jailed. After Silk Spectre and Nite-Owl broke the revealed Walter Korvacs out of jail, Manhattan teleported Laurie to Mars, and through flashbacks, she discovered that the Comedian was her biological father. Seeing her humanity reignited Manhattan's own. Meanwhile, Nite-Owl and Rorschach discovered that Veidt was behind the conspiracy. They headed to Ozymandias’ arctic retreat, but not before Korvacs mailed his journal to a right-wing newspaper.

Veidt explained his plan to unite the world by faking an alien attack in New York City. He killed the Comedian and framed Manhattan and Rorschach to preserve the plan, which he had set in motion 35 minutes before they even arrived to thwart any attempt to stop him. When news reports revealed the world was coming together to stand against the perceived threat, the assembled heroes agreed to keep the secret, All except Rorschach, who Manhattan killed. Everyone went their separate ways as the last scene showed a reporter reaching for Rorschach's journal.